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147348
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According to Morris Janowitz, investment in the military is hardly the result of disposable capital but is rather a fundamental cost that nations are prepared to bear, whatever be their economic ability. However, the pie that a nation can spare for defence is not limitless. It is often said that resources diverted to defence are always at the cost of development. Regrettably, such a sweeping statement exposes ignorance of geo-strategic realities. A secure environment is a prerequisite for development. Therefore, defence is a function of development. However, it is incumbent on the defence authorities to ensure that the allocated budget is utilised prudently and all efforts are made to affect savings.
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147352
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) can now impart robust training to C-17 Globemaster III pilots and loadmasters in the country itself. With the opening of a training centre in Gurgaon on July 8, Boeing and Mahindra Defence Systems have made this possible. “We were not able to train enough pilots due to lack of training centres in India. We had to send pilots abroad for training”, said Air Marshal Dhanoa who inaugurated the training centre. Once fully operational, the new centre will be capable of conducting local and multi-site simulations for added realism and more robust training. The C-17 training facility, which is located at the Flight Simulation Technique Centre in Gurgaon, will be a full-service location offering instruction to aircrews that operate the 10 C-17 airlifters that Boeing delivered to India in 2014.
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147347
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The long-term consequences of killing Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, who has now become a new icon of Kashmir militancy, are unpredictable.
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147355
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In his speech presenting independent India’s first budget, R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty, India’s second finance minister (the first was Liaquat Ali Khan, who migrated to Pakistan in 1947 to become that country’s first prime minister), acknowledged, “India has never had an adequate navy or air force and the effect of Partition has been to reduce them still further”. The defence budget for 1947-48 was Rs 92.74 crores, just under 47 per cent of the budgeted government expenditure of Rs 197.39 crores. The Indian Navy’s (IN) share of the defence pie was less than 2 per cent. Comparing this with the 19.29 per cent of the defence budget allocated to the navy in 2012-13 and coupling it with India’s maritime outreach in the Indian Ocean and beyond, as well as the oft-stated desire to be a ‘net security provider in the Indian Ocean Region’, one could be pardoned for thinking that the nation’s leaders are at last paying adequate attention to the maritime matters and (IN) force levels are destined to rise.
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147349
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In keeping with the trend worldwide, downsizing of the army has become a necessity. This has to be done after carrying out an assessment of threat, an exercise in which all stakeholders — political bosses, army and to an extent bureaucracy need to get involved. There have been attempts in the past where expert committees have been appointed and they have given their recommendations but the changes have been mostly cosmetic with concentration on reducing teeth to tail ratio. The need is to tackle all-encompassing doctrinal, organisational and then force levels. Technology should become the tool for change so that an optimum man-machine mix results.
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147345
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Either all of us are living in a fantasy world, or as a nation, we have voluntary suspended disbelief. Nothing else can explain the response of the government of India, the entire political class cutting across party lines and the mainstream media to the so-called disruption of ‘normalcy’ in the Kashmir valley.
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147353
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Air power is the total ability of a nation to assert its will through the medium of air. It comprises primarily the assets of the air force but also includes the air arms of the other Services, state governments and the civilian passenger and cargo fleet. Any differentiation that is made, intentionally or inadvertently, results in undermining the capability of this potent instrument available to the government.
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147343
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I’d like to talk about China’s security and diplomatic doctrine in a globalised era. In my view, from history till now, the way China views this issue can be summarised in one sentence: a country may be large, it will perish if it’s belligerent, the world may be peaceful, it is dangerous to forget war.
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ID:
147354
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July has been a very bad month for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Serious questions were raised about the CRPF’s ability to handle law and order situation in Kashmir which went out of hand due to disproportionate use of pellet guns, injuring numerous civilians including children. Also, the force had to face aggression in the Red Corridor where 10 of its commandos laid down their lives in Bihar. When the director general of the force K. Durga Prasad sat down to address the annual press conference in New Delhi on July 25, he realised he had to brave tough questions from the media, especially on the issue of pellet guns.
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ID:
147351
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The 1st of July was a red letter day for Indian military aviation, with the indigenously designed and developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) ‘Tejas’ formally being inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF). The Tejas is only the second combat aircraft to be developed in India after the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Marut, which entered IAF service over five decades ago. The distinction of becoming the first IAF squadron to be equipped with the Tejas went to No.45 Squadron ‘Flying Daggers’, which was earlier based at Naliya in Gujarat and flew the MiG-21 Bis. It is also the first fighter squadron to be part of the IAF’s Southern Air Command, headquartered in Thiruvanathapuram in Kerala.
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ID:
147350
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The last official update from the defence ministry on the French Rafale aircraft categorically stated that the negotiations - the inter-governmental agreement and the offset contracts - are ‘yet to be finalised’. The details such as transfer of technology through offsets will emerge only after these negotiations are completed, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Parliament on July 19. The Rafale medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) manufactured by Dassault will have advanced features like Advanced Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) radar, mid-air refuelling and advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) equipment as a part of its design. It is still unclear which of these following technologies will be shared with the Indian private companies.
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147346
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Writing in a leading newspaper, Union minister for urban development M. Venkaiah Naidu said that Pakistan has unleashed a proxy war, which might affect the ‘unity and integrity of our country.’ Quoting M.J. Akbar, he argued that Kashmir is an ideological problem which has little to do with geography. While rejecting the ‘grand bargain’ spoken of by former Union home minister, P. Chidambaram, the minister believes that ‘ultimately Kashmiriyat will triumph.’ The unsaid message is that India need not talk with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue.
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147344
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For the second time in a row, Airbus’s A330 MRTT (multi role tanker transport) programme has been cancelled by the defence ministry. This latest decision comes at a time when the Indian Air Force (IAF) is urgently looking to induct more mid-air tankers that will enormously augment its aerial combat capabilities. The government had previously cancelled the A330 MRTT programme due to the high pricing, and reissued a tender in September 2010, which was again won by Airbus in January 2013.
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